Wiki CSharp .NET vs. Wala Wiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
Version
0.4.2
1.1.7
2.6.0
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2026-03-14 (3 months ago)
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
Public Domain
GPL2+
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
All
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, *BSD
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
none
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
diffs
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
No
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
Preview
No
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
To current
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
No
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
No
Optional
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Plugin
Math formulas
Unknown
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Optional
Footnotes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Unknown
No
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Unknown
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
No
Plugin
Output Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
No
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
No
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
XML export
Unknown
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
No
Optional
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET Wala Wiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
= headline =
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*Bold*
'''bolded'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
=Italic=
''italicized''
''italic''
Underline Format
_Underline_
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
monospaced.
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
Images
[$Image file$]
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
# One
# Two
# Three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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